The café’s door handle was too high for Joe to get open and move in smoothly around, but that wasn’t a problem: a woman carrying a paper shopping bag from Goods was coming out as he was going in, and she left the door on for him, giving him one of those distracted creased-mouth smiles, […]
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Catland by Kathryn Hughes
Catland is the new book by UEA Professor of Life Writing Kathryn Hughes and is published by The Fourth Estate this week. Her biography George Eliot: the Last Victorian (1998) was the winner of the James Tait Black Award while The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton (2005) was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Andre Simon […]
Dog by Rob Perry
Dog is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Rob Perry and is published by Europa Editions this week. Rob graduated from UEA with a BA in Creative Writing in 2012. In 2020, his novel Dog was shortlisted and highly commended in the Peggy Chapman Andrews First Novel Award. In 2019 he was selected for the National Centre […]
Fall of Civilizations by Paul Cooper
Fall of Civilizations is the new book by UEA alumnus Paul Cooper and is published by Duckworth this week. Paul graduated from Warwick University with a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing in 2012, and was awarded the Seth Donaldson Memorial Bursary on joining the UEA Creative Writing (Prose) MA, from which he graduated in […]
Femi Kayode longlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger
Gaslight by UEA alumnus Femi Jayode has been longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Ian Flemming Steel Dagger Award, an award for thrillers set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction, psychological thrillers and action/adventure stories. Femi graduated from the MA in Crime Fiction at UEA in 2018, where he […]
Sophie Hampton, Jessica Worsdale, and Niamh Connolly longlisted for the Women’s Prize – Discoveries
Two UEA alumnae, Sophie Hampton (Creative and Critical PhD 2019) & Jessica (Jess) Worsdale (pictured) (MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction 2023) and a current student, Niamh Connolly (MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction) have been longlisted for the Women’s Prize’s Discoveries Prize, a category for novel openings from unpublished and un-agented women writers in […]
Alan Jackson & Richard Jerram longlisted for CWA Debut Dagger Award
Two UEA alumni have been longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award. The award is sponsored by ProWritingAid and is open to anyone in the world writing in English for the opening of a crime novel. Alan Jackson, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2024, is nominated for […]
Bridget Walsh & Katherine Black longlisted for CWA New Blood Dagger Award
Two UEA alumnae have been longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award. The Award is for the best crime novel by a first-time author of any nationality with their first novel of any kind published in the UK in English during the judging period. Bridget Walsh (pictured), who graduated […]
Rosa Chalfen & Dawn Jelley longlisted for Lucy Cavendish Prize
Two UEA alumnae have been longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, a prize for a novel by a woman over the age of 18 that marries literary merit with ‘unputdownability’. The winner will be awarded a prize of £1,500 and all shortlisted entrants will receive one-to-one consultation with an agent at Peter Fraser + […]
Natalie Marlow & Alice Slater shortlisted for CrimeFest Award
Two UEA alumnae have been shortlisted for CrimeFest’s Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award, which is for authors first published in the United Kingdom in 2023. The winning author will receive a £1,000 prize. Natalie Marlow, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2018, is nominated for Needless Alley; and Alice Slater, […]